Karyn

Beautiful!! lol! I just sent you an email & then get here to see this! Passies!! Yay! My newest addiction & obsession! I knew it was only a matter of time before something else 'grabbed' hold of me! lol! You're pictures are great Karyn! And thanks for your help with 'Lady Margaret' & 'Purple Haze!' :)

Mike

Just beautiful Karyn. I don't think they are boring at all. Yeah, you got into orchids now, lol. What is the kind that grows like a houseplant with yellow flowers that is supposed to be easy for a beginner? I saw it on TV on day and they were potting it up in what looked like potting soil with a lot of bark in it. Ok, gotta go now. My list, my list, I must go do my list, lol.

I am never bored with flushes like that. Name aside, Golden Showers always provide a great show, with no effort.

Bob

I've been growing orchids longer then anything else. There's a few that are good for beginners. It's probably a phalenopsis or a dendrobium. They come in a ton of different colors, yellow being one of them. Most are pretty easy but i do have a hard time with some because they need so much humidity. I only have about 15 varieties, maybe 50 plants and there's at least 100 I can think of that I'd like.
Karyn

You are so furtunate to have all that growing and showing for you. After THIS year with things going wrong.

I am with Bob and Kristy. BEAUTIFUL flushes. Putting aside what kind of brug it is. It is giving everything and showing off great.

Like always love seeing your pictures and how gorgeous everything is!

Lucy

Great job karyn! I really needed a fix and this is great, I'll just come enjoy your photos. So keep them coming!!

Karyn,

I wish my brugs were so boring. I have to wait until next year and hopefully I will get some flushes like that. All your blooms are pretty even the swiss cheese dat...darn those stinkin slugs.

Deb

Ah, maybe its a dendrobium. I'll go look those up. I know it wasn't a phal. Thats the only ones I know anything about since I got one last winter. I only remember it had long grassy looking foliage and had a lot of flower spikes and they were small and yellow, lol. Maybe I can figure out which one it is. We usually have pretty high humidity and I keep a mist bottle by mine and give it a spray whenever I walk by it. Getting a lot of new leaves so I hope it will bloom again this year. They flowers all fell off the day I brought it home, lol.

I think I found it. It might be a yellow cymbidium orchid I saw on that show. I will watch for one a rerun on that show and make sure thats what it is. Says it makes a good houseplant and it looks like the leaves and flowers I saw. My friend in Louisiana used to have an awesome collection of epiphytes. She had the perfect house and yard for all sorts of orchids. I can only grow a few but will make me happy if they ever bloom, lol.

Remember that most orchids only bloom once a year so give it time.

Karyn, Beautiful as usual!!! Can you give some pointers on overwintering Passies? When do you collect the fruit for viable seed?

Theresa

Theresa I sent you an email.
Karyn

Karyn, Wow, you have so much blooming! Your brugs look great! Does it seem like they all bloom at the same time? Since I started with cuttings so late this year I can't wait to get any bloom next year. I sure do like admiring all of the pics sent to the list. I love that reddish pink passie. What is the name of it?
Joyce

The red one is a vitifolia also called a grape leafed passiflora. The foliage looks an awful lot like a grape vine. I had brugs blooming sporadically over the past couple months but they are peaking now. Of course around the same time I have to cut them back : (
Karyn

I'm with Deb, I'll take that kind of "boring" anyday, lol.
That vitifolia is soooo pretty! Love the colors.
Of course everything is beautiful as always :)
I am having the same prob with the slugs and my dats. Have only had 1 bloom that didnt have at least one hole in it.
Same here with the brugs..I am finally getting buds, a few seem pretty close to blooming size..and to think, i still may not get to see them bloom this year. poo.

I too would love some pointers on overwintering the passies, please. Mine are sunk in the ground in pots. Should I wait till first frost to cut them back to bring in, or do it before? We had a couple nights in the upper 30's low 40's, but now we are back in the 50's for a bit. I was nervous we'd get a frost, I am so not ready for that! ANyway, How far should I cut back..should I leave 1-2' or more? what kind of lighting do they need inside? Can I let them go dormant or should I keep them going? I wish I could climb inside your brain, lol.

Beautiful Karyn! I love that orangy passiflora, and under Misc. the MG and what is the second pix with the red small flowers?

The small red flowered plant is a Rangoon Creeper. It grows almost like a bush and blooms all summer or longer. It has a nice light scent. I think Lynette has the double variety which is really pretty. The non hardy passies are easy to winter over. Many can be put in a semi dormant state and just kept above 40 F or you can keep them under lights. Grow lights are a must, high intensity even better. Many will bloom all winter but the blooms aren't as vibrant as they are outside. I cut them back regardless if they are going to be kept growing or go dormant. Just make sure that they aren't over-watered, especially dormant ones. The cut stems can be rooted. I use water and soil. I also know people that use floral foam for rooting. All the rooting techniques require bottom heat. Daniella lift the pots before the first frost. I lost a few last year because I waited and they were supposedly semi hardy varieties : (
Karyn

Thank you Karyn! I will attempt to keep them semi dorm then..along with my esperanza. DH is already pitching fits just thinking about lights going again, he knows the time is nearing..lol. Of course the kids are thrilled cuz they like it looking like a jungle in here.

hmmm..I have floral foam..maybe I'll give that a shot.

thanks again Karyn :)

Love all your photos. My stuff is all just starting to bloom now that we are cooling off. Cool, you got pods already! I only have a few on rosalla, nol, and ila marie so far. Lemon meringue keeps having hysterical pregnancies -don't know was up wit dat!

Your sunburst passie is so cute- Lost mine darnit. I liked that little stinker lol. I'll get another in the spring.

Does your rangoon creeper lose all its leaves in the winter?

The RC does drop much of the foliage by the time I take it in. Last year I kept it in the warm GH so it started putting out new foliage. This year I might keep it in the unheated GH and see what happens. I'm sure it will be bare in there. I can send you cuttings from my Sunburst if you want to try and root them. It gets fruit but I've never had any that contained seeds. At least you only smell it if you get up close. If that smell traveled I don't know if I could keep it around. lol